“(The mother) has suffered, and continues to suffer, extreme anguish and trauma due to the forcible separation from her infant child — a baby so young that she was breastfeeding prior to the separation,” the lawsuit said.

Duenas was denied asylum in late July.

Despite President Donald Trump signing an executive order in June to stop family separations, the mother and daughter are yet to be reunited, the lawsuit added.

In July, a federal judge in California ordered the US government to temporarily pause deportations of reunited families to allow attorneys time to debate whether the judge should more permanently extend that order.